Radio Frequency Identification Technology for Logistics, Tagging and EPC

Impinj honored by Frost & Sullivan

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Research and consulting firm Frost & Sullivan has presented Impinj, Inc. with the 2008 Global Frost & Sullivan Award for Emerging Technology of the Year, for the company’s Indy R1000 chip, a UHF RFID transceiver . The yearly award recognizes the ability of the selected company to successfully develop or introduce a new technology, formulate a well-designed product family and make significant product performance contributions to the industry.


“The innovation of the Indy R1000 technology lies in its ability to integrate onto a single chip, 90% of the components required for a reader radio, delivering unprecedented performance, integration and cost-effectiveness to a worldwide customer base,” says Frost & Sullivan Research Analyst Keith Robinson.

Frost & Sullivan endorsed the market potential of Impinj’s technology, pointing its belief in the solution’s ability to decrease reader hardware costs and increase RFID adoption rates across application segments in the future. Ease of deployment, integration with existing enterprise software applications, functionality in dense reader mode and upgradeability through protocol firmware are some of the value-added features that Frost & Sullivan cite in pointing to Impinj’s customer-oriented focus.

“The company’s global growth outlook is evident in the Indy R1000 chip’s compatibility with key standards and frequency ranges worldwide,” says Robinson. “The product solution ensures compliance with both ISO-18000-6C and EPCglobal Gen 2 standards, and supports regional regulatory requirements, including FCC, ETSI, PRC, Korea and Japan.” [end] 

SML Group Ltd announced the launch of its new “ViziT” RFID item visibility solutions for the retail apparel and item tracking applications.

The ViziT solutions include a range of RFID/EAS enabled paper and woven labels, as well as tickets and sticker that can be attached to garments and stacked items. Using the SML ViziT IT cloud based data management software also provides for semi automated inventory control, as well as improved loss prevention by triggering alarms and item identification at the store exit.

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STL Technologies, a UK-based criminal justice software provider, has gotten together with Impinj to utilize the company’s RFID technology as part of a real time location system, physical case file management application.

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Lumidigm has announced they have been recognized as being among the top 300 startups in 2011 by the fundedIDEAS publication called TOP 300 STARTUPS with a ranking of 29th overall.

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The Agricultural Bank of China is using an RFID-based bank asset monitoring system to track the movement and amounts of money circulating through their facilities. With headquarters in Beijing, the Agricultural Bank has branches throughout Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Singapore.

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Frost and Sullivan released a white paper, A Best Practices Guide to Fingerprint Biometrics, that details challenges for identity and access management (IAM) solutions and how fingerprint biometrics can meet the needs of the industries.

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Impinj and RFsense took part in the joint installment of a complete source to floor RFID solution for “memove,” a new apparel brand and part of Brazil’s Valdac Global Brands.

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